“The record doesn’t mean much when you’re dealing with a team,” Gay said before scoring 29 points Sunday. “You’re thinking about yourself and how you can contribute, and that’s what other teams think.

“Wherever you feel like you’re wanted the most, that’s where you’re going to be.”

He just wants to be wanted, is that too much to ask?

The Nets have some nice pieces — Brook Lopez, Devin Harris, Chris Douglas Roberts. They have a new, rich owner coming in and will be moving to Brooklyn in a couple years. If someone is willing to be part of the rebuilding process, New Jersey would not be a bad place to sign.

Gay — the very athletic swingman — is going to be one of the more interesting free agents out there this summer. He is in the second tier of available players (after LeBron James, Bosh and Dwyane Wade) and likely somebody is going to overpay to get him. The Grizzlies then have the right to match, as Gay is a restricted free agent, but it is possible (even likely) the financially strapped franchise will have to let him walk because of the high price.

That’s a fine sentiment. Saying it publicly is another matter. Not even Harden did that a couple years ago. He was recorded during a pregame team huddle.

There’s a fine line between self-fulfilling confidence and providing bulletin-board material to the opponent. There’s already some animosity between the teams stemming from the Stephen Curry-Harden MVP race in 2015, and it has bubbled since. No matter how harmless Capela’s remark might have been intended to be, it’ll be met contentiously in the Bay Area.

Oklahoma City traded for Victor Oladipo out of Orlando to be their third scorer, behind Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook. It didn’t exactly work out that way, Durant bolted town and when Westbrook went off Oladipo was looking for a place to fit in.

That place turned out to be the Pacers.

Oladipo has been playing like an All-Star this season with Indiana, and last week he was key in snapping Cleveland’s 13 game win streak, then turned around and dropped 47 points on Denver. For the week he averaged 35.7 points a game, shot 45.7 percent from three, plus grabbed 7.7 rebounds per game.